The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light, is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the background of our being, in which they lie,--an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.

Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.